February 2, 2026 (1 Trade) (+$40.00)
Overall Grade: B
Day Summary: Coming off a catastrophic tilt day on Friday, I knew it was necessary that I checkedmyself back into Trader Rehab today, which means I was back to using just 1 MES and was trying to solely focus on putting on a good trade if my set up presented itself. Now typically, when in Trader Rehab, I don't like to look for trades immediately after market open, but today I saw a quick set up trading in the direction of the premarket trend right at 9:31am and I took it. It was a good trade, but I did close early and likely because of the emotion behind Friday's performance. I was up 8 points in less than a minute and decided to close it, which was unfortunate because it did end up smacking TP less than a minute later. All and all though, even though it was good to lock in a quick green trade on a playbook set up, I need to remember that the market has no recollection of my previous trading day and I also need to remember how important it is to let winners run in trading. One day at a time though,
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Long 1 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Trend Continuation + Closed Early
Grade: B
- playbook set up - yes
- fakeout entry - good
- trading in direction of the trend - yes
- Target was 6958.50 which would have doubled my winner had I just let my winner run - but again after Friday and considering this was just 1 min after market open, I do understand why it was hard to hold this trade
- after the fakeout entry, I should have known this would at least move up to the next resistance - target line